The Fall

The Fall refers to the complete and global breakdown of all aspects of human civilization. This 400 year catastrophe completely destroyed our civilization, and quite nearly out species.

Industrial & Economic breakdown
No longer could we ship people and goods across the globe quickly and cheaply. Continents were again seperated by vast and impassible bodies of water.

Political and Cultural Breakdown
Humans revert to isolationist, clan structures

Biological and ecological destruction
Loss of 50% of Earth's habitable zones.

Scientific Knowledge and Technological Abilities Lost
Lost knowledge, lost production, loss of global infrastructure (roads, travel, electric, econonmic).

Global Warfare
Unrestricted global warfare killed billions and ruined a certain percentage of available habitat.

Permanent impacts
The Long Winter, a global ice age triggered by the events at the Hudson Super Dam.

Wool Gathering

 * Economic collapse by 2030
 * WW1 Diary of a middle class Viennese woman during the blockade and economic collapse.
 * How states could secede
 * Commercial real estate collapse driven by death of retail (given over to online)
 * Soviet Lessons during the collapse
 * Meteor Crater - incorrectly assumed to be the cause of The Fall, as punishment from god/the heavans.
 * Reddit - what if all manmade things suddenly disappeared?
 * http://thearchdruidreport.blogspot.com/2012/10/how-it-could-happen-part-one-hubris.html
 * A world without power